Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir
By:
Laura M. Flynn
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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Description:
When Laura Flynn was a little girl, her beautiful, dynamic mother, Sally, was the center of her imagination. It wasn’t long, however, before Sally’s fun-loving side slowly and methodically became absorbed by madness. As Laura’s parents divorced and her father struggled to gain custody, Sally’s symptoms bloomed in earnest while Laura and her sisters united in flights of fancy of the sort their mother taught them so that they might deflect the danger threatening their fragile family.
Set in 1970s San Francisco, Swallow the Ocean is redolent with place. In luminous prose, this memoir paints a most intimate portrait of what might have been a catastrophic childhood had Laura and her sisters not been resilient and determined enough to survive their environment even as they yearned to escape it.
Publisher: Counterpoint
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
amazing...thank you for sharing your story - I have never written a review before but feel the need to do so after reading Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir. I did not want to put this book down. It was a perfect read for a long weekend and a snowy one at that. The author is a wonderful story teller and I thank her for sharing her very personal story.
Customer Review: 3 out of 5
Just ok - I didn't like this book as much as I thought I would. I do enjoy reading Memoirs however, this one seemed to only get good towards the end. Then I felt really bad for the mother (and of course the girls).
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Excellent - I happen to love this genre so have stuck w/ some books in this category that aren't well written, just because the facts are interesting. I feel like I've hit pay dirt though when I can find a memoir that IS well written. This book fits the bill. Flynn is a gifted writer. I found myself highlighting sentences - who does this in a memoir? - just because some sentences were so well written and expressed a thought superbly. I appreciated her insight into the mind and heart of a child with an unstable parent. I am passing this book on to friends.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
One to remember... - This was an exceptional memoir of the life a young girl, her two sisters and her paranoid schizophrenic mother. It was a sad account of the devastation and loss of control that this girl and her sisters had during their time living with their sick mother. Some of the things that they had to experience with their mother was out right awful. It amazed me how someone so utterly sick can still be lucid if they wanted to. It is definitely a memoir that you will not forget.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
An all-time favorite - A sweet and innocent view of growing up with a parent with mental illness. Beautifully written
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